Transferring car or truck.



No. 701,207. Patentd May 27, |902. B. A. LUDLOW. i. TRANSFERBINGCAB 0R TRUCK.

(Application filed Mar. 1, 1902.)

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I UNITE STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

ROSS A. LUDLOW, OF HANFORD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MANFORD LUDLOV, OF HANFORD, CALIFORNIA.

TRANSFERRING CAR OR TRUCK..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,207, dated May 27, 1902.

Application filed March 1, 1902. Serial No. 96,298. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ROSS A. LUDLOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hanford, in the county of Kings and State of California, have invented certainV new and useful Improvements in Transferring Cars or Trucks; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a fruit car or truck, and the aim and purpose of the same is to provide a simple and eective organization of elements for transporting and transferring fruit in bulk from one point to another and to have the supporting bed so mounted that it may be rotated for convenience in receiving and depositing a load. of fruit without liability of the bed moving during such operation or having the means by which the rotation is obtained interfere with the propulsion or movement of the car from one point to another.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed. I

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a fruit-car embodying the features of the invention and shown arranged for movement from one point to-another. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same, showing the bed elevated and adapted to be rotated for conveniently receiving or depositing a load. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken through the carin the plane of one of the axles.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the views.

The numeral 1 designates a bed or body, which in the present instance comprises opposite sides 2, connected by cross-braces 3 at suitable points on opposite sides of the center. The sides 2 also have upper and lower transversely-extending plates or bores 4 and 5, the upper plate or bore 4 serving as a medium for holding the load disposed on the bed or body and coacting, in conjunction with the braces 3, to effect a stable support of the load. The body or bed 1 has axles 6 applied thereto and rotatably mounted in bearingboxes 7, secured to the lower edges of the opposite sides 2. The axles 6 each have cranks 8 at their opposite extremities, which depend a suitable distance, and have wheels 9, rotatably mounted thereon. These wheels 9 may be either of the flanged type or ordinary fiat tread, this arrangement depending entirely upon the application of the improved car to a 6o track or when used as an ordinary truck. To the front extremity of the bed or body 1 a drawing device 10, which may bea draft pole or bar or a pair of shafts, is pivotally secured and has the rear opposite extremities l1 em- 6 5 bracing the sides 2. The extremities 1l are pivoted ata point in advance of the rear ends thereof, and to said rear ends link-bars 12 are movably attached at their front terminals and likewise attached at their rear terminals 7o to the cranks of the front axle 6. In advance of the pivot or fulcrum devices or device of the rear extremities 11 the front ends of elongated link-bars'13 are pivotally secured and have their rear ends movably attached to the cranks of the rear axle 6. Through this organization of parts the draft device is operated to raise and lower the wheels 9, and thus throw the latter into and out of contact with the bearing-surface, such as rails or the 8o ordinary groundsurface,over which the car or truck is propelled. When the draft device 10 o is thrown upward over the front extremity or end of 'the bed or body 1, the front axle is rotated in a rearward direction and the cranks drawn forwardly, and the rear axle is rotated in a forward direction and the cranks thrown rearwardly, as shown by Fig. 2. This will elevate the wheels from the ground-surface, and when the draft device 10 is depressed, 9o as shown by Fig. 1, a reverse movement of the axles is effected and the wheels will be brought into contact with the bearing-surface over which they are to move.

Depending from the plate 5 is a short tubu 95 lar pillow 14, having a lower outwardly-flared flange 15, formed with an inner groove 16. This flange 15 iits into an annular groove 17 in the upper side of a center plate 18, the said groove 17 being large enough to receive Ioo the iiange 15 and also a plurality of antifrictional balls 19. The center plate is firmly se'- cured to a base-plate 2() of considerably larger dimensions, and extending through the center of the plate 5, the pillow 14, the center plate 18, and the base-plate is a king bolt or rod 21, thus providinga turn-table for the car or truck at a point centrally between the axles 6, the under surface of the base-plate 20 being normally held above the plane of the ground or track engaged by the Wheels 9, as clearly shown by Fig. 1, when the said Wheels are depressed in normal position. As soon as the wheels are thrown up out of engagement from' the ground or rails with which they engage, as clearly shown by Fig. 2, the base-plate is brought into contact with the ground or a. portion of the track-bed between the rails, and when the parts are so disposed the bed or body 1 may be freely turned or rotated to bring the load or the top surface of said bed or body in any position desired relatively to a point or platform where it is desired to deposit the load or from which the latter is to be taken.

The improved device is particularly well adapted for use in conveying fruit from one point to another, either in ordinary transfer operations or special preparation processes or methods. It will be understood that the bed or body 1 may be varied in shape and general construction without in the least departing from the scope of the invention, the essential features of which are the combination, in a car or truck of the character set forth, of means for throwing the wheels thereof out 0f contact with the ground or other bearing surface and at the same time dispose the turn-table in such position that it will be eifective as a means for permitting the bed or body to be rotated to arrange the said bed or body in any position desired for convenience in unloading or loading the same.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of a bed or body having crank-axles movably attached thereto'and provided with wheels, a turn-table attached to the bed or body at a point between the axles, and means for coperating with the said axles to throw the wheels out of engagement with the ground or other surface and at the same time bring the turn-table into operative position.

2. In adevice of the class set forth, the combination of a bed, a draft device pivotally connected to the front extremity of said bed, crank-axles movably attached to the under side of the bed and having wheels thereon, and link-bars movably attached to the crankaxles and to the said draft device.

In testimony whereof I affix ymy signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROSS A. LUDLOW.

Witnesses:

E. H. SMITH, A. O. DAVIDSON. 

